January 24, 2019 New Candidate Fellow: Hande Karabiyik Hande Karabiyik received her PhD from Maastricht University in 2015. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Economics Department of Lund University, Sweden between 2015-20...
January 24, 2019 Placement Merrick Zhen Li: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom PhD alumnus Merrick Zhen Li started a position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Cambridge-INET Institute at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge...
January 23, 2019 Taxing robots? Not recommended Bill Gates – amongst others – calls for a tax on robots. Is this a good idea? Researcher Uwe Thümmel (Erasmus University Rotterdam and VU Amsterdam) does...
January 17, 2019 Placement Esmée Zwiers: Princeton University, United States Esmée Zwiers, PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam, has accepted a position as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. She will join the Ce...
January 17, 2019 Cartel Dating article nominated for Antitrust Writing Awards 2019 The article ‘Cartel Dating’, written by research fellows Peter Boswijk and Maarten Pieter Schinkel (co-author Maurice Bun) has been nominated for the Antitrus...
January 16, 2019 Paper by alumni Jonneke Bolhaar and Nadine Ketel, and fellow Bas van der Klaauw published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics The paper ‘Job Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment’ by alumni Jonneke Bolhaar (CPB) and Nadine Ketel (University of G...
January 08, 2019 Fellow Michel van der Wel appointed Endowed Professor Econometrics of Macro-Finance Research fellow Michel van der Wel is appointed as Endowed Professor Econometrics of Macro-Finance at Erasmus School of Economics through the Erasmus Trustfonds, as of 1...
December 21, 2018 Fellow Hessel Oosterbeek ranked first in Dutch ‘Economentop 40’ In the 2018 ‘Economentop 40’ rankings listing the top 40 economists in the Netherlands, research fellow Hessel Oosterbeek was ranked in first place.
December 20, 2018 New Research Fellow: Michael König Michael König has joined Tinbergen Institute as a research fellow. König is associate professor at the Department of Spatial Economics at VU Amsterdam.
December 13, 2018 Fellow Martijn van den Assem co-author of Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Richard Thaler Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017 was awarded to Richard Thaler (University of Chicago, United States) for his analyses in behav...
